Mississippi: State of Confession
...Right," Politico Magazine, May 27, 2014, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133.html. Like Joseph Crespino's work on the Magnolia State,8Joseph Crespino, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University...
Whiskey and Geography
...farmstead, the more likely it would have shifted from producing oats, barley, sheep, and cattle, common in the British Isles, to wheat, pigs, and corn.5H. Tyler Blethen and Curtis W....
Work
Poem This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...to both the "preponderance of Yankee settlers" who were more likely to reject vigilantism and accept racial equality, and the relative paucity of immigrants from the South. Ultimately, Lynching Beyond...
The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron
...poet makes sounds like prayer, but the heron is merely annoyed, stepping into the air and pulling with broad wings. The poet carefully records a sacred text, but the heron...
Fall Creek
...had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. Published in Raising the Dead (2003). Text may vary...
Mapping Souths
...autonomous countries, like, for example, England and Hanover, their separation would be no more difficult than was the separation of England and Hanover. "The South," however, is neither a territory...
Geography
...Orleans— and each time we pull off the highway I see my father like this: raising his thumb to feign hitchhiking—a stranger passing through to somewhere else. 2. At...
#209, Long Meter
1) We are a garden walled around, Chosen and made peculiar ground, A little spot enclosed by grace Out of the world’s wild wilderness. 2) Like...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...essays, "Identity: Skin Blood Heart" and "Rebellion": What has been done in my name that I would like to challenge and/or change? Because this lecture series is the first act...